Blunt Quote by John Armstrong

Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their pleasure ...…

— Jeremy Bentham

The goods of Fortune, even such as they really are, still need taste to enjoy them. It is the enjoying no the possessing, that…

— Michelangelo

I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable: the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature. I…

— Peter Greenaway

“...the more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life. And we, wrapped round…

— Maxim Gorky

The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are utterly contemptible if compared…

— Charles Spurgeon

“There is a sweetness to life that can only be tasted when our eyes are truly open to our purpose and calling. The taste…

— DeAnna Kinney

The sweet quality is set opposite to the bitter, and is a gracious, amiable, blessed and pleasant quality, a refreshing of the life, an…

— Jakob Bohme

The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living.

— Millicent Fenwick

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone…

— Anonymous

Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern, and a…

— Thomas Carlyle

“True happiness and pure, unselfish love is only meant for those who are willing to sacrifice all that they have for it. You will…

— Rachel McClellan

Whatever the Benefits of Fortune are , they yet require a Palate fit to relish and taste them; 'Tis Fruition, and not Possession, that…

— Michel de Montaigne